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Sometimes a difficult issue needs a creative solution. Eagle County has a great bus service, but they must travel the highways to get from town to town in the valley. There is a rail line that runs through all the towns in the valley. Why not combine the two and use the same vehicle to do it? The Union Pacific Railroad has many vehicles that service the track that travel the highways and the tracks. Trucks pull off the highway, lower wheels that engage the track and then travel down those tracks. Why not do the same thing with buses? Convert or purchase buses to also travel on the tracks.

The workforce housing issue for nearby ski resorts is a continuing problem as clearly stated in the guest opinion from Hilary Cooper, a San Miguel County Commissioner, and Kelly McNicholas Kury, a Pitkin County Commissioner, that ran in the April 10 edition of the Vail Daily. Real estate is going to find its highest and best value and the Vail Valley is certainly a testament to that. Somehow it just seems that affordable employee housing in Vail and Avon is like putting a square peg in a round hole — it’s not a good fit. Former Vail Town Council member Greg Moffet states that he feels rem...

The Gore Valley Trail through Dowd Junction will be reopened for a new season by 5 p.m. Friday, April 16, weather permitting. Users are advised to use extreme caution during or after additional snowstorms due to snowplowing activity on Interstate 70. In addition to sweeping, cleaning and other repairs, reopening the trail requires the installation of a fabric screen near the Mud Springs Gulch wildlife underpass. The screen hides trail users from migrating deer and elk and allows the trail to remain open during the spring migration season. Regarding other pathways, the recreation trail from Su...

The 'crazy' 9-mile tunnel through Vail Mountain that never happened Posted: 12:17 PM, Feb 10, 2021 Updated: 2021-02-11 18:58:08-05 Talk to the locals in Vail, and you'll soon hear about the noise from Interstate 70, which runs right through the heart of the luxury resort town. We dig into the archives to look at one I-70 solution that never happened: A 9-mile tunnel through Vail Mountain. VAIL, Colo. — As long-dead plans for infrastructure go, the 53-page, single-spaced document archived on the Vail town website makes for an interesting read. But first, a warning — this might requ...